Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 112 / Friday, June 10, 2016 / Proposed Rules 37565 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 261 

[EPA–HQ–RCRA–2016–0040; FRL–9947–60– 

OLEM] 

Hazardous Waste Management 

System; Tentative Denial of Petition To 

Revise the RCRA Corrosivity 

Hazardous Characteristic 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Extension of comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or the Agency) is 

extending the comment period on the 

tentative denial of a petition to revise 

the Resource Conservation and 

Recovery Act (RCRA) corrosivity 

hazardous waste characteristic 

regulation, published in the Federal 

Register on April 11, 2016. EPA is 

tentatively denying the rulemaking 

petition because the materials submitted 

in support of the petition fail to 

demonstrate that the requested 

regulatory revisions are warranted, as 

further explained in the tentative denial. 

The Agency’s review of additional 

materials it identified as relevant to the 

petition similarly did not demonstrate 

that any change to the corrosivity 

characteristic regulation is warranted at 

this time. The comment period is being 

extended to December 7, 2016. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 7, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

RCRA–2016–0040, at http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

The EPA may publish any comment 

received to its public docket. Do not 

submit electronically any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets/

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Helms, Materials Recovery and 

Waste Management Division, Office of 

Resource Conservation and Recovery, 

(5304P), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 703–308–8855; email address: 

helms.greg@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document extends the public comment 

period on the tentative denial of a 

petition to revise the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 

corrosivity hazardous waste 

characteristic regulation, published in 

the Federal Register on April 11, 2016 

(81 FR 21295). In that Federal Register 

notice, the Agency tentatively denied 

petitioners’ requests that the Agency 

make two changes to the current RCRA 

corrosivity characteristic regulation: (1) 

Revise the regulatory value for defining 

waste as corrosive from the current 

value of pH 12.5, to pH 11.5; and (2) 

expand the scope of the RCRA 

corrosivity definition to include 

nonaqueous wastes in addition to the 

aqueous wastes currently regulated. 

Petitioner-Public Employees for 

Environmental Responsibility (‘‘PEER’’) 

has requested that the Agency extend 

the public comment period to allow 

additional time to evaluate the record 

supporting the tentative denial. EPA is 

hereby extending the comment period, 

which was set to end on June 10, 2016, 

to December 7, 2016. Late comments on 

this tentative denial may not be 

considered. 

To submit comments or access the 

docket, please follow the detailed 

instructions as provided under 

ADDRESSES. If you have questions, 

consult the individuals listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Dated: June 3, 2016. 

Barnes Johnson, 

Director, Office of Resource Conservation and 

Recovery, Office of Solid Waste and 

Emergency Response. 

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